Luke 5:23

Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you’, or to say, ‘Get up and walk!’?

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In The King James Version

Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?

In Context

22But Jesus perceived their reasonings and reacted by saying to them: “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

24But that you may know that the Son of the Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man: “I say to you, get up! Take your cot and go to your house.”

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Cross References

Mark 2:9Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins have been forgiven’, or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!’?

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:18-27

Cure of a Paralytic. 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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